I confirmed with very good sources and the story seems to be true. I know that ESA people in human flight are quite upset too.

I know, it's not much, but I like the Constellation program. :)

(I built the Ares I ML intentionally based on the very early renders)

Pogo is one specific kind of harmonic oscillation. The difference is like bugs and insects. Pogo is longitudinal one.
Anyone I’ve talked to who I believe has reliable info says the downcomer was shaking like a guitar string-that’s lateral vibration. Pogo doesn’t look like that.

missile and go after Orion. And again the LAS's task is to escape from the potential blast radius. The debris have its own momentum, LAS pulls Orion away from that vector. And the chance to get hit by a debris get smaller with cubic order of magnitude as the distance get greatheart. Calculated risk.

no charges on Russian launch vehicles, they just shut down engines).

And honestly I don't really understand what are you coping on the FTS. Yes, we know that it can destroy the boosters. The design didn't changed that much. And even if FTS didn't detonate the boosters it won't become a seeker %

AFAIK NASA FTS system is a well tested, standardized one. There are decades of operational history and we know that it's works. So far the only FTS related accident was an aborted Soyuz launch where the Russians simply forgot to turn off the system. (It just ignited the escape system, %

Do your homework and dig up NTRS.

It's not rocket science that if you don't stay in the line of fire then there is significantly less chance to get hit by a shotgun.

The rest is nothing but you flailing around aimlessly. These are all solvable problems.

Sure. Way back in the '80's. Worked exactly as it was designed unlike the - so called - state of the art Starship's FTS.

And? Your capsule will be kilometers away out of direction.